1. Review Reading 3. How did Confederate losses in the Battle
of Corinth compare with Union losses? Armies attacking fortified positions
usually lost many more men than those defending them. Why do you think
that would be the case?

2. This photo shows the Confederates who died attacking Battery
Robinett, after their bodies had been collected for burial. If you look
carefully, you may be able to see the names that have been scratched
on the photographic plate to identify some of the bodies. Who do you
think might have done that and why?

3. The Civil War was the first major conflict to be recorded
in photographs. Although photographic images had to be converted to
lithographs to be printed in newspapers, this was the first time that
people not directly involved in the conflict could see unromanticized
views of what war was like. Views like this, however, were rarely published.
Why do you think that was the case?

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